Politics and Government

Table of Contents


SPECIAL COLLECTION: AUTOGRAPH LETTERS, 1580-1970

RARE BOOK DEPARTMENT

Originals, ca 1580-ca 1970, 5 m (A.L.S.)

This extensive collection of autographs consists of letters from figures of social, intellectual and political importance in Western Europe and North America. This includes correspondence from monarchs (e.g. Charles I, George I, George III and George IV of Great Britain, Frederich Wilhelm II of Prussia, and the Empress Marie-Thérèse), American Presidents (e.g. Abraham Lincoln, George Washington), Prime Ministers of Canada (e.g. Sir Robert Borden, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Sir John A. MacDonald), and British and European politicians and statesmen (e.g. Giuseppe Garibaldi, Sir Robert Walpole, Raymond Poincaré). Some figures are represented by a small collection of letters, others by a single item. The Autograph Letters have not yet been fully described; researchers wishing to trace correspondence may contact the Rare Books Department.

SPECIAL COLLECTION: CHARLES I, KING OF ENGLAND, 1600-1649

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Originals, 1629-1648, 1 cm (H118, H15, H47)

Figuring prominently in this collection is a treaty at the Isle of Wight between the King and Parliament, 1648, 70 pp. There is also a proclamation against the Catholics of Scotland, 1629, and a letter to the Bishop of Oxford, 1642.

SPECIAL COLLECTION: ESQUIMALT, BRITISH COLUMBIA, 1886

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Original, 1886, 1611 pp

This consists of a survey prepared by Henry F. Perley, Chief Engineer, of the work in progress for building a dock at Esquimalt.

COLLECTION SPÉCIALE: FRANCE, LOIS, ca 1798

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Original, ca 1798, 3 cm (H184.Bd395 Folio)

Ce registre est le second d'une série "pour Servir à l'enregistrement des Loix". Ce volume s'étend de la loi 1086 (3 septembre 1792) à la loi 2373 (1794).

SPECIAL COLLECTION: GREAT BRITAIN, COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, 1839

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Original, 1839, 6 cm (New MSS0)

Manuscript copy from shorthand notes of proceedings in the Court of Queen's Bench, 12 January, 1839 to 25 January, 1839, concerning an appeal for the release of 12 Canadians from a transportation sentence for taking part in the 1837 Rebellion.

SPECIAL COLLECTION: HEMMINGFORD TOWNSHIP, ca 1867

Hemmingford is situated in Huntingdon County, about 64 km south of Montréal and 6 km north of the U.S. border. Formerly known as Scrivers Corners, after an early settler, it took its present name from a village in Huntingdonshire, England.

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Originals, ca 1867, 1 cm (CH276.Bd246)

This material consists of two poll books for an election at Hemmingford and district, ca 1867.

SPECIAL COLLECTION: JESUIT ESTATES, 1783-1865

The Jesuit Estates were the endowments which had been accumulated by the Jesuits in support of their educational work in Canada. This land reverted to the Crown in 1773 when the Society of Jesus was disbanded by the Pope. However, it was agreed that surviving Jesuits should be maintained by the income from the remaining properties and that not until the death of the last member of the order would the estates become finally disposable. In 1778 a commission, including James McGill as one of the commissioners, was appointed by the Governor-General to inquire into the current and future disposition of the lands. In 1793 some Québec residents proposed that the Crown should allocate the Jesuit Estates to the support of public education in Québec. A committee of nine was named to prepare and deliver an address to His Majesty on the subject; James McGill was one of the nine members named. It was not acted upon. In 1800, with the death of the last of the Jesuits, the House of Assembly approved a motion that the matter should be deferred indefinitely. The estates remained in government hands until 1831 when the income was handed over to the Legislative Assembly in support of its educational responsibilities.

Between 1811 and 1814 the Society was re-established by Pope Pius VII, and in 1842 a number of Jesuits returned to Québec. The Jesuits then sought restoration of (or compensation for) its sequestered estates. This problem troubled successive Québec administrations until the Mercier government passed the Jesuits' Estates Act in 1888. This act authorized payment of $400,000 as compensation to the Jesuits for the lands confiscated by the Crown.

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Originals, 1783-1825, 1865, 1 cm (CH167.S149, CH303.S263, CH384.S348)

The greater portion of this collection consists of documents and correspondence concerning the use of the Jesuit Estates, for the period 1783 to 1825, including letters to Sir Gordon Drummond and a report of a meeting of the Privy Council on the subject. Included are accounts of the Jesuits Estates for 1810. There is as well a statement concerning the income of seigniories belonging to the Jesuits Estates prepared for Sir W. Dawson in 1865.

SPECIAL COLLECTION: MONTREAL, 1840-1874

The site of the city was first visited by Cartier on his second voyage in 1535-1536. Later in 1611 Champlain founded the settlement of Place Royale; however, it could not be maintained. Thirty years later, in 1642, Paul de Chomedy, Sieur de Maisonneuve, arrived to lay the foundations of a permanent settlement which was named Ville Marie de Montréal. In 1644, Louis XIV of France granted the first civic charter to the settlement. Much later, under the British regime, in June 1832, the city was granted an act of incorporation by royal assent.

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Originals, 1840-1874, 5 cm (CH327.S287, CH221.S199, CH283.S243, CH321.S281, CH323.S283, CH387.S351)

This collection concerns property matters and letters on the value of farm property near Montréal from Hugh Brodie, W.J. Knox, William Badgley, John Dods, 1840. Also included are papers and a plan concerning the sale of property at Guy and St.Antoine Streets, 1851; a plan of the city between Bonsecours Street and the Champs de Mars, 1874; financial statistics of the Corporation, 1830-1839; appointment of three commissioners to repair Government House, 1832; and waterworks financial documents, estimates and reports, 1854-1855.

SPECIAL COLLECTION: MONTREAL, NIGHT PATROL, fl 1801

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Originals, 1801, 21 pp (New MSS)

Papers relating to the night patrol for Montréal to which many prominent Montrealers subscribed.

SPECIAL COLLECTION: NEWTON TOWNSHIP, 1792-1854

The Township of Newton, located in the county of Vaudreuil, was instituted in 1802. It was named in honour of Sir Isaac Newton.

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Originals, 1792-1854, .5 cm (CH210.S188, CH445.RBR Box)

The greater portion of this collection consists of letters and documents pertaining to the Township of Newton, 1792-1854, including letters of Chartier de Lotbinière, J.H. de Longueuil, George Pike, and Samuel Holland. Also included is a petition to Thomas Dunn from Joseph Dominique Manuel Le Moine de Longueuil and Michel Eustache Gaspar Alain Chartier de Lotbinière concerning the surveying of the line of demarcation of the township, 1806.

SPECIAL COLLECTION: QUEBEC AND LOWER CANADA, GOVERNOR, EXECUTIVE COUNCIL AND LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, 1784-1836

Under the Quebec Act of 1774, local government would be provided for by an appointed council whose ordinances were subject to the approval of the governor. The Constitutional Act of 1791, which divided the province of Québec into Lower and Upper Canada, created bicameral colonial legislatures composed of appointed legislative councils and elected assemblies. The act also created executive councils, which served as advisory bodies answerable to the governor and not to the legislatures.

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Originals, ca 1784-1836, 3 cm (CH284.S224, CH306.S266, CH324.S284, CH304.S264, CH286.S246, CH287.S247, CH285.S245)

Papers pertaining to the Governor comprise 7 documents, 1789-1825, including a dispatch to Lord Dorchester concerning the upcoming Constitutional Act, 1789; a letter from Lord Castlereagh to Sir James Craig on the latter's dissolution of the Assembly, 1809; a letter to H.W. Ryland, Secretary of the Government, on the appointment of Sir George Prevost, 1811; a letter to Sir Robert Peel regarding the Indian Department, 1811; a report by Jonathan Sewell and Louis Charles Foucher to Sir Robert Milnes on the confection of the papier-terrier and censier, 1801; a letter to Lord Bathurst to Sir Francis Barton on the Act of Appropriation, 1825; and a report to Sir James Craig on the lease of the forges of St Maurice, 1810.

Records of the Executive Council include a protest against the governor, 1799; extracts from the minutes, concerning the surveying and granting of the Eastern Townships and waste lands, 1798; and a report on petitions for grants of waste lands, 1819. The Legislative Council is represented by a citizens' petition for greater French representation on the Council, ca 1784; admission records and members' lists, 1791-1836; and extracts and observations concerning the Council's

power to impeach, 1819 and 1821.

COLLECTION SPECIALE: QUEBEC, LOIS MUNICIPALES, 1771-1773

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Originals, 1771-1773, 387 pp (CH9.S44)

Cette collection contient des textes de lois municipales.

COLLECTION SPÉCIALE: QUEBEC, NOUVELLE FRANCE, CONSEIL SOUVERAIN/ CONSEIL SUPERIEUR, 1663-1760

Après 1663, le gouvernement de la Nouvelle France fut confié à un gouverneur (le chef de la colonie responsable des affaires militaires), un intendant royal (responsable de l'administration civile) et l'évêque. En plus de ces trois personnes, cinq Canadiens étaient également nommés au Conseil souverain (après 1702, le Conseil supérieur); plus tard, on ajouta plusieurs autres membres. Le rôle du Conseil était surtout consultatif mais comme cour suprême de la Colonie, il développa une série de précédents légaux modifiant la Coutume de Paris en s'adaptant aux conditions de la Colonie.

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Originaux, 1667, 1732, 5 cm (CH362.S322, CH219.S197)

Ces documents comprennent des extraits du registre du Conseil relatifs à la nomination de Louis Théandre Chartier comme Lieutenant-Général Civil et Criminel, 1667, et à des terres seigneuriales dont le titre n'était pas libre, 1732.

SPECIAL COLLECTION: RIEL, LOUIS, 1844-1885

Louis Riel, the leader of two Métis revolts against the Canadian government, was hanged for treason in Regina on November 16, 1885.

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Originals, 1885, 2.5 cm (M20190)

The Louis Riel collection consists of some of his prison writings, including an account of a vision and an appeal to the Indians for aid, 1885, a poem signed Louis "David" Riel, n.d., a letter written by Louis Riel to Col. A.G. Irvine, Commissioner, North West Mounted Police, 15 November, 1885, and correspondence between Sheriff Chapleau, Lieutenant Govenor Dewdney and Colonel Irvine concerning the disposal of Riel's body, 1885.

SPECIAL COLLECTION: RYLAND, HERMAN WITSIUS, 1760-1838

Born in Northampton, England in 1760, Herman Witsius Ryland came to Canada in 1793, after having served in America during the last stages of the American Revolutionary War, 1781-1784, as assistant Deputy Paymaster to the British forces. Ryland came to Canada as Civil Secretary to Lord Dorchester, Governor General of British North America. In 1796, he was appointed Clerk of the Executive Council, holding that appointment until his death. He served as a member of the Legislative Council from 1811 to 1838, and as Civil Secretary under succeeding Governors until 1812. As an influential member of the ruling oligarchy and as the confidential adviser of Sir James Craig, Ryland was distrusted by French Canadian leaders. In 1812 he was dismissed from the secretaryship by Sir George Prevost, who adopted a more conciliatory policy toward French Canadians.

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Originals, 1810-1815, 4 cm (CH10.S46)

This collection consists of letters to Sir James Craig and others on the subject of Lower Canada, 1810-1815.

SPECIAL COLLECTION: ST. ALBAN'S RAID, 1865

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Original, 1865, 21pp (New MSS)

Various documents and letters and telegrams relating to the raid at St. Alban's, Vermont in 1865.

SPECIAL COLLECTION: VENICE, ca 1614,1650

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Originals, ca 1614, 1650, 3 cm (H83.Bd138, H83.Bd166)

"Casa de Nobili Venetiani" provides accounts of Venetian families with their armorial bearings in colour. There is also a collection of Venetian laws, ca 1614.

SPECIAL COLLECTION: WEST INDIES, 1741-1755

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Originals, 1741-1755, 1 cm (CH90.Bd186)

This collection consists of correspondence concerning affairs in the West Indies written by a number of individuals, including William Mathew, Governor of the Leeward Islands, General William Fleming, and Captain Harris.

ALLISON, FREDERICK, fl 1815-1821

Frederick Allison, an Englishman, was Napoleon's orderly during his final exile on St. Helena.

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Originals, 1815-1821, 2.5 cm (Napoleon Collection)

Allison's memoirs of Napoleon are accompanied by his watercolour drawings of Napoleon and St.Helena.

AMES, HERBERT BROWN, 1863-1954

Born in Montréal, Herbert Ames was educated at Amherst College, Massachusetts. He engaged in business in Montréal with the firm of Ames, Holden and Co. from 1885-1893, and later became a director of this and several other corporations. Ames was a Montréal alderman from 1898 to 1906 and chairman of the Board of Health from 1900 to 1904. In these capacities he helped to bring about important civic reforms. He also represented Montréal-St. Antoine as a Conservative in the Canadian House of Commons from 1904 to 1920. During the period from 1919 to 1926 he served as financial director of the Secretariat of the League of Nations in Geneva and was Canadian delegate to the Assembly of the League in 1926. Ames was knighted in 1915.

RARE BOOK DEPARTMENT

Originals, 1895-1915, 95 cm (Large MSS)

The greater portion of this material relates to his political activity, including electoral lists for Montréal and notes on qualifications of voters, ca 1895, as well as a Volunteer Electoral League notebook, 1895-1900. His daily journal covers the periods from 1899-1909 and from 1912-1915. Financial notebooks, dated 1897 to 1910, are also included.

ANTHOINE, FRANCOIS-PAUL-NICOLAS, 1792

Anthoine fut député de Moselle à l'Assemblée Constituante et à la Convention lors de la Révolution française.

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Original, 1792, 16 pp (H23)

La lettre d'Anthoine au jurisconsulte M. Perignon concerne la recherche de certains documents dans son bureau.

BADGLEY FAMILY, 1801-1929

William Badgley (1801-1888), a lawyer, was a founder in 1834 and later the secretary of the Constitutional Association of Montreal. A conservative, Badgley was the Attorney General for Canada East from 1847 to 1848. He joined the teaching staff of McGill's Faculty of Law as a lecturer in 1843 and served as the first Dean from 1853 to 1855. He was a judge of the Court of Queen's Bench from 1866 to 1874. In 1834 he married Elizabeth Wallace Taylor, and they had 6 children, including John Thompson (n.d.) and at least one grandson, Clement (n.d.). William Badgley's brother, James Thompson Badgley (d.1829) was a lieutenant in the Royal Navy and did survey work off the coasts of Africa and India.

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Originals, 1801-1929, 40 cm (M15466)

William Badgley's papers form the bulk of the family's papers and consist of a book of legal notes and judgements, 1801-1826; legal commissions, 1823-1866; as well as circulars, petitions and correspondence for the Constitutional Association, 1834-1839. Other papers include family correspondence, 1823-1829, and deeds of sale, 1831-1852, of James Thompson Badgley.

BELLAIRS, CARLYON WILFROY, 1871-1955

Naval officer, politician and author Carlyon Bellairs was educated at the Royal Naval College and aboard H.M.S. Britannia. He entered the Royal Navy in 1884, became a midshipman in 1886, and received a special promotion to Lieutenant in 1891 after obtaining first class marks on all his certificates. He invented many devices adopted by the Royal Navy, but was obliged to retire in 1902 due to the failing of his eyesight. His second career as a Member of Parliament began in 1906 when he was returned for King's Lynn; he represented this constituency until 1910, and Maidstone from 1915 to 1931. He was also the member for Lewisham on the London County Council. Bellairs was active on a number of important Parliamentary Committees. Though offered a baronetcy in 1927, he declined on principle, for he objected to political honours. In 1954 he founded and endowed, in memory of his wife, McGill's Bellairs Biological Research Institute in Barbados. Bellairs also wrote poetry: The Sowing and the Reaping, 1919; Ghosts of Parliament, 1929; and a history of the Battle of Jutland.

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Originals and Printed Materials, 1879-1951, 3 m (Large MSS)

Bellair's personal papers comprise scrapbooks, 1898-1939; biographical, parliamentary and miscellaneous notes, 1879-1945; and correspondence, 1889-1951. His professional life is reflected in files on naval affairs, 1894-1937, and in an extensive series of political papers including general correspondence and subject files, 1905-1946; material relating to committees, 1904-1930; and political 'forecasts', 1900-1945. Literary interests are revealed by notes on Sir John Fisher, 1915, and H.G. Wells, 1932-1934. Some books from Bellairs' library, with his annotations, are included in his papers.

BOUCHETTE, JOSEPH, 1774-1841

Topographer Joseph Bouchette was born in Montréal. About 1790, he entered the office of his uncle, Major Samuel Holland, at that time Surveyor General of Quebec and later Surveyor General of Lower Canada. Bouchette succeeded his uncle in the latter office in 1804, retaining the position until his death. He served in the provincial marine on the Great Lakes (1791-1796) and in the Royal Canadian Volunteers (1796-1802). He also served during the War of 1812. Bouchette produced important maps of both Upper and Lower Canada as well as several large descriptive works.

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Originals, 1809-1821, 1 cm (CH319.S279, CH240.S218)

The greater portion of these papers consists of correspondence between J.Bouchette and Chartier de Lotbinière concerning the demarcation of Upper and Lower Canada, dated from April 1806 to November 1821. The remaining material includes a schedule of land grants and general statements of land remaining ungranted Lower Canada, 1809. 34 leaves.

BOVEY, WILFRID, 1882-1956

Educationist and writer Wilfrid Bovey was born in Montréal, the son of Henry Taylor Bovey (see Section I: University Teaching and Research). He earned his B.A. from McGill in 1903 and his LL.B. from Cambridge in 1906, and practiced as a lawyer in Québec from 1907 to 1923, save for the War years, when he served with the Black Watch. He was McGill's first director of Extramural Relations and Extension from 1923 to 1948, and served in a number of other positions connected with adult education, particularly as chairman of the Canadian Legion Educational Services (1939-1946) and president of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild (1930-1936). Bovey was a member of the Quebec Legislative Council from 1942 to 1948, and a governor of the C.B.C. from 1938 to 1951. He was a prolific author, particularly on the subject of French Canada.

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Originals, Printed Materials and Photographs, 1903-1953, 3 m (M.G. 1023)

Bovey's papers document his involvement with a number of organizations, his political, literary, and military careers, and his travels. His files as president of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild, 1930-1936, include reports, correspondence and speeches, while those connected with the Canadian Legion Educational Services also include photographs and printed material, 1939-1946. The C.B.C. series comprises programmes, draft speeches and letters, 1936-1944. His political correspondents include St. Laurent and MacKenzie King, 1940-1944. Speeches made by Bovey before the Legislative Council, business and other groups discuss a wide range of political, social and educational issues are supplemented by clipping files on Québec politics. Bovey's literary ventures generated correspondence and book reviews, as well as manuscript poems, 1939-1941, n.d., while his World War I military service is the subject of a small file of correspondence, 1915-1953. Finally, Bovey assembled scrapbooks of photographs and souvenirs of his voyages between 1930 and 1939.

For Bovey's files as director of Extra-Mural Relations and Extension at McGill, see McGill Administrative Records, Record Group 44.

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Originals and Typescripts, 1900-1950, 70 cm (CH278.Bd260, Bd261, Large MSS)

These materials include Bovey's typescript, with corrections, of Canadien (1932) and typescripts of The French Canadian Today, 1938 and The King Sang. The remainder consists of miscellaneous papers concerning Québec and federal politics, the Canadian troops during and after the First World War, and McGill extension teaching.

BROWN, THOMAS STORROW, 1803-1888

Thomas Storrow Brown was born at St. Andrews, New Brunswick. He came to Montréal in 1818. In 1832 he was one of the founders of the Montreal Vindicator. He allied himself with the French-Canadian patriots and took part in the Rebellion of 1837. Brown was in command of the defeated rebel forces at the Battle of St-Charles. He subsequently escaped to the U.S. where he worked as a journalist in Florida until 1842. In 1844 he returned to Montréal under amnesty. He occupied minor administrative posts here from 1862 until 1876.

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Originals, 1836-1875, 3 cm (CH443.RBR Box)

These papers largely reflect Brown's political concerns and activities in Montréal between 1832 and 1838. It includes excerpts from the Vindicator newspaper, notes, resolutions, memorandum and speeches, as well as letters to Brown conerning Florida politics and U.S. Indian negotiations, 1841-1843. There are also business documents and letters, many concerned with insolvency cases in Montréal, 1841-1875, essays by Brown on 'the troubles of 1837' (5 pp.) and 'Annexation of Canada' (27 pp.), and a journal kept during an ocean voyage, 1838.

BRUSONI, FRANCESCO, fl 1613-1614

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Originals and Printed Materials, 1613-1614, 2 cm (H85.Bd166)

Brusoni's treatise on Venetian laws (Leggi et ordeni diversi della S. Repubblica di Venetia...,1614) is accompanied by an 8-page printed pamphlet of amendments to 1613.

CANADIAN COOPERATIVE FEDERATION-NEW DEMOCRATIC PARTY, QUEBEC, 1941-1962

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Originals, Copies, Printed Material, 1941-1962, 2.5 m (New MSS)

These records of the Québec wing of the C.C.F.-N.D.P. include the minutes of the Executive Committee, correspondences and copies of the newspaper Canada Nouveau and its successor, Debout.

CARTIER, GEORGE-ETIENNE, 1814-1873

Born in Lower Canada, George-Etienne Cartier, lawyer and Conservative politician, was the Attorney General for Canada East in the 1850s and 1860s and a key figure in the movement towards Canadian Confederation. As a lawyer, he represented such clients as the Sulpicians and the Grand Trunk Railway. He held executive posts, including the presidency (1850), in the Montréal chapter of the St-Jean Baptiste Society and owned some property on St. Paul and Notre Dame streets in Montréal.

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Originals, 1836-1872, 65 cm (M22067)

The George-Etienne Cartier papers reflect both his professional and personal life. He corresponded on political matters with Lord Monck, 1865-1866, Louis H. Lafontaine, 1860, Vicar-General Charles F. Cazeau, n.d., and Lord Dufferin, 1872. There are also petitions from special interest groups, 1846, 1861-1862, and rough notes on a variety of political issues including separate schools in Upper Canada, ca 1860-1864. As Attorney General, Cartier had correspondence with and reports from government officials on the Ernest L. Lamirande and Alfred Gough cases, 1860, 1866. The records of his private legal practice include depositions of witnesses and notes for the Haymarket Riot inquest, 1844; court judgments concerning the Grand Trunk Railway, 1859-1861; and miscellaneous legal notes and financial records, 1846-1865. There are also copies of leases and financial records related to his property holdings, 1846-1865. Cartier's involvement with the St-Jean Baptiste Society is documented by copies of the by-laws, 1842-1851; partial membership lists, 1846-1848; and notes on the by-laws and organization of the Society, 1844-1846. In addition to these professional papers, there is family correspondence, 1836-1872; and receipts and bills for household and personal expenses, 1846-1862.

CERRETARI, AGOSTINO, fl late 17th century

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Original, ca late 17th century, 1.5 cm (M50.Bd49)

"Questo manoscritto e stato ricopiato da altro manuscritto antichissimo per uso di Agostino Ma. Cerretani per detestare il Veleno che ci e sparso." This ca. late 17th century manuscript of 89 leaves is apparently a critical commentary on Machiavelli's Prince, and was made for Cerretari's use.

COCHRANE, JOHN, fl 1785

John Cochrane was apparently a physician.

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Original, 1785, 1 item (M.G. 2041)

Letter from George Washington, thanking Cochrane for assistance with some hounds sent by the Marquis de la Fayette and declining to promote him (or his client) to the office of Continental Treasurer.

COCHRANE, ANDREW WILLIAM,

SEE SECTION XIII. TRAVEL AND EXPLORATION, McKENZIE, RODERICK

COMITE CANADIEN, 1784-1788

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Originals, 1784-1788, 30 pp (CH293.S253)

Copy of the Comité Canadien's instructions, 1784 and a commission appointing Adam Lymburner, agent for the Comité, 1788.

CONNOLLY, C.V., fl 1924

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Originals, 1924, .5 cm (H101.Bd Box V)

This collection consists of correspondence addressed to C.V. Connolly on how to reduce unemployment written by a number of people, including the Duke of Northumberland, A.G. Gardiner, E. Ray Lancaster, H. Rider Haggard, Israel Zangwill, W. J. Hicks, D. Cadamanos, Bramwell Booth and Frank Benson.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, MONTREAL, 1766-1767

In 1764, Governor James Murray created a three tier system of justice for Québec. In between the Court of King's Bench and the local Justice of the Peace, was the Court of Common Pleas. Unlike the other two levels, the Court of Common Pleas held forth the possibility of using French law and language in the court room. The Court of Common Pleas handled civil cases of 10 pounds sterling and higher, with the right to appeal to the Court of King's Bench. Among the first appointments to the Court of Common Pleas, were John Frazer (d.1795) for the District of Montréal and Adam Mabane (ca 1734-1792) for the District of Quebec.

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Original, 1766-1767, 2.5 cm (M11431)

This record book of the Court of Common Pleas, Montréal covers the period of 11 February 1766 to 11 February 1767.

CUGNET, FRANCOIS-JOSEPH, 1720-1789

Né à Québec d'un inspecteur des terres de la Couronne française et descendant d'une famille d'avocats parisiens, François-Joseph Cugnet étudia le droit chez lui et avec des avocats de Québec mais le scandale qui s'attacha à son nom à la suite de son emprisonnement à Saint Domingue signifia qu'il ne put obtenir de postes importants durant le régime français. Sa brillante carrière comme fonctionnaire commença avec la conquête anglaise. Ses connaissances de droit le rendirent vite indispensable aux gouverneurs Murray et Carleton; et en 1768 il fut nommé Traducteur français et Secrétaire du Gouverneur et Conseil de Québec. A la demande de Carleton, il rédigea un certain nombre de traités de lois civiles, les premiers à être écrits à Québec, qui furent publiés en 1775 et qui jouèrent un rôle important dans le règlement légal de disputes, particulièrement celles qui concernaient la propriété foncière. En 1777, Cugnet fut également nommé Greffier responsable des rôles fonciers.

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Originaux, 1771-1773, 1788, 5 cm (CH9.S44, CH191.S169)

Ce fonds comprend le manuscrit de Cugnet de trois des traités publiés plus tard à Québec: Traité de la loy des fiefs, Traité des anciennes loix de propriété de Canada, aujourd'hui Province de Québec, et Traité de la police.

ETHIER-BLAIS, JEAN, fl 1965-1966

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Originals and Copies, 1965-1966, 30 cm (M.G. 4064)

Correspondance et rapports divers créés et accumulés dans le cadre de ses activités en tant que membre de la Commission royale d'enquête sur le bilinguisme et le biculturalisme.

GALE, SAMUEL, 1783-1865

SEE SECTION IX. PROFESSIONS AND TRADES

HALE, EDWARD, 1800-1875

Born in Québec City, Edward Hale was the second son of the Honorable John Hale and Elizabeth Frances Amherst. He became interested in the development of the Eastern Townships in 1834, and purchased a farm near Sherbrooke. In later years, he acquired over 4000 acres of land and was also a shareholder in the British American Land Company. Hale served with the Sherbrooke Volunteers during the rebellions of 1837-1838 and later was appointed to the Special Council. He held the position of representative for Sherbrooke in the assembly of the Province of Canada from 1841 to 1847. While in the assembly he became involved in the St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railway scheme and served on the provisional committee to oversee the project. In 1866 he was named the chancellor of Bishop's College and in 1867 became a member of Quebec's Legislative Council.

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Originals, 1829-1851, 50 cm (M20483)

The Edward Hale papers deal with his business and political activities and to a much lesser extent his military activitites. As a landowner and businessman, Hale had frequent incoming correspondence concerning loans, mortgages and the discounting of notes, mainly from people in the Sherbrooke area, 1829-1851; correspondence with Alexander Tilloch Galt on the British American Land Company, the cotton factory in Sherbrooke and the St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railway, 1840-1847; and with Peter McGill on the establishment of a branch of the Bank of Montreal in the Eastern Townships, 1836. As a political figure, Hale wrote letters to his wife, Eliza, concerning the activities of the Special Council, 1840-1841, bills before the House of Assembly and patronage, 1841-1847. While serving in the militia during the Rebellion of 1837, Hale wrote letters to his wife, Eliza which deal with his military activities, 1837.

HARDINGE OF LAHORE, HENRY HARDINGE, 1ST VISCOUNT, 1785-1856

SEE SECTION VI. WAR AND THE MILITARY

HART FAMILY, 1760-1843

SEE SECTION V. BUSINESS AND ECONOMY

HEREFORD, HARRY, fl 1915-1940

Harry Hereford was Dominion Commissioner of Unemployment Relief from 1930 to 1940. He previously worked for the Commissioner of Manitoba Government Telephones.

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Originals, 1915-1939, 5 cm (M.G. 3045)

Hereford's scrapbook of autographs contains excised signatures, and sometimes entire letters from federal and provincial government officials. The correspondence is sometimes personal, sometimes official, but the criterion for preserving the letter seems to have been the signature.

HYNDMAN, HENRY MAYERS, 1842-1921

Henry Hyndman was born in London and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. As a journalist he travelled widely in Europe, North America and Australasia. Hyndman founded the Social Democratic Federation in London in 1881, and was an active agitator for remedies against social abuses. Later he became a leading critic of the Boer War and of Britain's policy towards India. He was an important figure in international socialist circles, and wrote on both the topical issues of the day and the history and theory of socialism.

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Originals, 1900-1921, .5 cm (H182.Bd Box VI)

Twenty-two letters to Mrs Cobden Sanderson discuss politics, particularly international socialism.

JACOB, JOSEPH H., fl 1889-1912

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Originals, 1889-1912, 1 cm (M.G. 4034)

Jacob's correspondence concerning the Montreal Parliamentary Society, 1889-1895, and the erection of a memorial to Sir John A. Macdonald, 1891-1895, includes letters from Lord Strathcona, Wilfred Laurier, Charles Tupper, George Stephens and others. A few brief personal notes include letters from Lord Strathcona and Robert Borden.

JOHNSON, JOHN, SIR, 1742-1830

Johnson was Superintendent General of Indian Affairs in British North America.

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Original, 1786-1824, 13 pp (CH299, S259, CH104.S122, CH264.S241)

There are several letters to Johnson about Indians including one from Henry Hope relating to goods to be distributed to Loyalists and Six Nation Indians, 1786, and one from John Bulter concerning troubles with the Six Nations. See also Section XII. Family and Private Life, Johnson Family

KADWELL, CHARLES, fl 1832-1838

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Originals, ca 1850, 12 cm (New MSS)

Kadwell's two volumes of narratives, notes, newspaper clippings, maps and engravings cover his voyage from London to Montréal in 1832, a second journey from Montréal to Upper Canada, and the Rebellions of 1837-1838. A genealogy of the Kadwell family is included.

KLUCK, JOHN, fl 1796

John Kluck was a United Empire Loyalist from Pennsylvania. For a time, he served as a tailor at Fort William Henry in New York.

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Original, 1796, 2.5 cm (M4515)

Kluck's journal deals with his experiences as a United Empire Loyalist. The journal was written from April to July 1796.

MORRIS AND FELTON FAMILY, 1811-1917

In the early part of the 19th century the Felton family established themselves as farmers in the Eastern Townships of Lower Canada. Both John Felton and his brother, William Bowman Felton had served with the British navy during the Napoleonic Wars. However, John Felton was courtmartialed in 1809 over the sinking of his ship, the Curieux. During the 1850s John was re-appointed to his old rank after extensive correspondence with the British admiralty.

Lt. Col. William Morris of the British army came to Canada in 1835 and was a landowner in both Cape Breton and the Eastern Townships. His son, Livingston E. Morris (1822-1884) studied law in Montréal. Livingston married Isabella Felton, the youngest daughter of William Bowman Felton in 1859. Their son William Morris (1862-n.d.) attended Bishop's College in Lennoxville and later practiced law in Sherbrooke. By the 1890s, William Morris was described as a prominent Conservative lawyer in Sherbrooke and served as the mayor of the Township of Ascot from 1893 to 1901. A leader in the community, Morris was a director of the Empire Trust Company, the chairman of the Board of Trustees for Bishop's College and a president of the Eastern Townships Agricultural Association. He married Margaret C. Scarth in 1898.

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Originals, 1811-1917, 10 cm (M21585)

The John Felton papers concern his naval and civil service careers. Incoming correspondence from British admiralty officials deals with his re-instatement in the British navy after his court martial, 1855-1861, and there is correspondence with government officials on the subject of his resignation as a crown lands officer, 1865. Also included are marriage certificates, 1811, 1820, a will, 1837, and other genealogical material on the Felton family, n.d.

The William Morris papers deal with his political activities and provide genealogical information on the Morris family. His papers contain political correspondence from John Smythe Hall, 1894-1895, and with Robert Borden on Morris' suggestions for the new cabinet, 1911, on conscription, and on the Union government and patronage, 1917. There are two scrapbooks of newspaper clippings and military certificates which document the history of the family, 1839-1911. Also included in the papers is the correspondence of Lt. Col. William Morris and his heirs concerning a land grant in Cape Breton, 1846-1872.

MURRAY, SIR GEORGE, 1772-1846

Sir George Murray served in a number of positions in the colonial administration of British North America. He came to British North America in 1814 as lieutenant-general and in 1815 he served as provisional Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada. He later was elected to the British House of Commons and served as Secretary of State for War and the Colonies, 1828-1830.

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Originals, 1828-1830, n.d., 1 cm (Unaccessioned)

The Murray papers consist of nine pieces of correspondence from Sir Francis Burton, Sir James Kempt and two which are unsigned concerning the Councils and the revenues of the Canadas.

NOEL-BUXTON, NOEL EDWARD, 1st BARON, COLLECTION, 1869-1948

Noel-Buxton was a member of the British Parliament at various times from 1905 to 1930. He wrote several books on political issues in the Balkans.

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Originals, 1900-1947, 2.5 m (H181)

This collection consists of the papers, correspondence, documents, memoranda, and notes that Noel-Buxton collected concerning various political and social problems, such as slavery, colonialism, and international peace, ca 1900-1947. See also Section XII. Family and Private Life, Buxton Family.

PANET, JEAN-ANTOINE, 1751-1815

Jean-Antoine Panet was born in Québec City. He began to practice as a notary in 1772, but in 1786 he gave up this profession to concentrate on his career as a lawyer. He amassed a sizeable fortune, and in 1776 became seigneur of Bourg-Louis. Panet was a talented lawyer, responsible for training many of the leading practitioners of the succeeding generation. He served in the Québec militia from 1787 to 1794, and was lieutenant-colonel of the Beauport batallion from 1794 to 1808. Panet emerged into political prominence in 1784, when he played a key role informing the Comité Canadien to press for political reforms; he himself was chairman of the Québec City wing. He also served on the commission to investigate the disposition of the Jesuit Estates, and with Gabriel-Elzéar Tachereau wrote a minority report advocating the use of the estates to finance a public university. He represented the upper town of Québec in the House of Assembly and acted as Speaker (1792-1815), a difficult role which, particularly in later years, sometimes brought him into conflict with his own Canadian party. His great prestige and unquestioned loyalty to the party - he had been one of the founders of Le Canadien - carried him through to an honourable retirement from the House only five months before his death in May, 1815.

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Originals, 1775-1843, 1.5 cm (CH365.S325)

Panet's papers fall into two sections. The first consists of letters of appointment and other official documents pertaining to his command in the militia, membership on commissions, and seat in the Assembly and Legislative Council. Personal correspondence comprises letters from his nephew Henry Boone, 1775, on the capture of Boone's brother-in-law and other details of the war, and from Panet's brother Bernard, relaying family news, 1802. Also included is a letter to Panet's son Joseph from the commission of inquiry into Indian affairs, with questionnaire, 1843.

PAPINEAU, LOUIS JOSEPH, 1786-1871

Born in Montréal, Louis Joseph Papineau was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada in 1814 and became the leader of the Patriotes. He left Canada soon after the outbreak of the Rebellions of 1837-1838 and only returned when amnesty was granted in 1844. Although he was elected as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Canada for St-Maurice (1848-1851) and Deux-Montagnes (1852-1854), he failed to re-establish himself as the most important French Canadian political figure. He retired from political life in 1854.

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Originals, 1852, 1876, 1 cm (M22076)

The Louis Joseph Papineau collection consists of a manuscript of an "Address to the Electors of Deux-Montagnes", 19 July, 1852 and A LETTER OF ^) May 1876 written by Thomas Storrow Brown (1803-1888) describing Louis Joseph Papineau's death.

ROSE, JOHN, 1820-1888

John Rose was born at Turiff, Scotland and educated at King's College, Aberdeen. In 1836 he came with his parents to Canada. In 1842 he was called to the Bar of Lower Canada where he built up a large practice in Montréal. Rose was elected to represent Montréal in the Legislative Assembly of Canada in 1857 and became Solicitor-General for Lower Canada in the Macdonald-Cartier administration. In 1861 he retired from the office of public works in the Cartier-Macdonald government, to which he had been appointed in 1859. He continued to sit for Montréal. He was a delegate at the London Conference of 1866-1867, at which the final arrangements of Canadian Confederation were made. Rose became the second finance minister of the Dominion in 1867, representing Huntingdon in the Canadian House of Commons. In 1869 he left Canada to form the banking firm of Morton, Rose, and Co., of London, England. He was knighted in 1870.

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Originals, 1850-1867, 2.5 cm (CH388.S352, CH108.S126, CH440.RBR./Box)

These papers consist of political and financial correspondence to Rose from various persons. They include letters by W. Cantwell and others concerning the 1867 election in Huntingdon County, Québec, and from Sydney Bellingham concerning proposed powder magazines in Montréal, 1864.

RUSSELL, JOHN, LORD, 1792-1878

Russell was Prime Minister of Great Britain.

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Original, ca 1857, 15 pp (New MSS)

These are notes and galley proofs with corrections for the speech "The Fall of Palmerston".

SANBORN FAMILY, 1851-1874

Born in New Hampshire, John Sewell Sanborn (1819-1877) was a graduate of Dartmouth College. He became a lawyer in Sherbrooke and in 1850 as an annexationist he won the Sherbrooke County seat in the Legislative Assembly. An active railway promoter, Sanborn worked closely with A.T. Galt on the St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railway and was also involved with the St. Francis and Megantic Railroad. A Liberal, Sanborn held his seat in Sherbrooke until he was named to the Legislative Council in 1863. In 1867 he was named to the Canadian Senate and later served as a judge of the Court of Queen's Bench in Montréal. A deacon of the Congregational Church in Sherbrooke, Sanborn was also active in temperance associations and served as the president of the Temperance and Prohibitory League of Quebec. In 1853, Sanborn's first wife died and three years later he married Nancy Judson Hasseltine (d.1874) of Bradford, Massachusetts.

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Originals, 1851-1874, 8 cm (Unaccessioned)

The bulk of the Sanborn family papers deals with the business activities, social concerns and political career of John Sanborn. As a promoter of the St. Francis and Megantic Railroad, Sanborn received correspondence from A.T. Galt and Luther Holton on the passage of a bill on the railroad through the Assembly and the financing of the railroad with debentures, 1871-1872 and received estimates and bills of contractors, 1872. Sanborn's interest in temperance is shown by incoming correspondence from Rev. T. Gales, Secretary of the Quebec Temperance League on temperance legislation and plans for meetings, 1873-1874. There is also some correspondence to Nancy Hasseltine (Sanborn) from friends and other family members on her marriage and health, and with some family news, 1854-1857; and from her husband on political matters, 1856-1857, 1869.

SEWELL, JONATHAN, 1766-1839

Sewell was Attorney General and Chief Justice in Lower Canada.

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Original, 1796-1826, 1 cm (CH326.S286, CH289.S249)

Included is a letter to Sir James Craig on the political state of Lower Canada, 1810, and a report on sedition proceedings at Montréal, October, 1796.

SHANLY, WALTER, 1819-1899

Born in Ireland, Walter Shanly came to Canada in 1836. A civil engineer, he worked for railway companies in Canada and on the Hoosac Mountain Tunnel in Massachusetts. He was also a Conservative Member of Parliament from 1867 to 1872 and again from 1885 to 1891.

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Originals, 1867-1869, 1.25 cm (M22087)

The Walter Shanly papers consist of correspondence dealing with the Quebec Defences Arbitration case, 1867-1869 and a contract concerning the Hoosac Mountain Tunnel, 1868.

STEPHENS, GEORGE WASHINGTON, 1866-1942

George Washington Stephens was born in Montréal in 1866. He was educated at McGill University and at unviersities in France, Germany and Switzerland. Stephens inherited a large estate from his father, the Hon. G.W. Stephens, and became an investment and real estate broker. From 1907 to 1912 he was chairman of the Montreal Harbour Commission. In 1914 he was an unsuccessful candidate for the mayoralty of Montréal. He was appointed a member of the Governing Commission of the Saar in 1923 and was its president from 1924 to 1926. Stephens died in Los Angeles, California.

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Originals and Printed Materials, 1928-1938 (Unaccessioned)

Included are correspondence, 1928-1937, diaries, 1930-1938, and a scrapbook of newsclippings and correspondence from politicians and diplomats, 1923-1926.

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Originals, 1890-1942, 15 m (Large MSS)

Stephens' papers are largely official in character. Approximately half are concerned with the Saar Governing Commission, but there is also considerable material on the St Lawrence Seaway project. Correspondence, press clippings and business documents are included. See also Section XII. Family and Private Life, Stephens Family.

STEPNEY, GEORGE, 1663-1707

Poet and diplomat George Stepney was born in Westminster and educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A. 1685, M.A. 1689). As a diplomat, he was posted to a number of German and Eastern European courts. In 1702, he was appointed British Envoy Extraordinary in Vienna, but he was withdrawn in 1706 as a result of his quarrel with Prince Wratislaw. For a short while he was in charge of Mindelheim, the domain conferred by the Empire upon the Duke of Marlborough, but after in 1706 he was sent to The Hague. Stepney had a wide knowledge of German diplomatic and political affairs.

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Originals, 1704, 1.5 cm (H175)

Twenty-two letters from Maj.-Gen. Richard Hill, the British resident in Turin, to George Stepney describe military operations in northern Italy.

STUART, LAVINIA, fl 1870-1930

Lavinia Stuart, a resident of Montréal, was a grand-daughter of Andrew Stuart (1785-1840).

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Originals, 1927-1930, 2.5 cm (M20803)

The Lavinia Stuart papers consist of correspondence and notes concerning the Reverend John Stuart, Sir James Stuart, Captain Edward Stuart and Andrew Stuart, 1927-1930.

THOMSON, LESLIE RIELLE, 1886-1958

Leslie Thomson was born in Toronto and earned a B.Sc. from the University of Toronto in 1906. After a short period teaching civil engineering at University of Manitoba, he moved to Montréal to work for Dominion Bridge (1911-1918) and other engineering firms. At McGill he was special lecturer in structural engineering from 1921 to 1934, Professor of fuel engineering from 1929 to 1931, and special lecturer in architectural engineering in 1935. During World War II, Thomson served with the federal ministries of Transportation and Munitions; for his work as special liaison officer in the munitions department he was awarded an M.B.E. in 1943 and an O.B.E. in 1946. He is the author of The Canadian Railway Problem.

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Photocopy, 1946, 2 items (M.G. 3082)

Memorandum by Thomson to C.D. Howe describing his wartime work, 1946.

UNION OF CANADIAN MUNICIPALITIES, 1901-1918

In 1901 the Union of Canadian Municipalities was founded by the Mayor of Westmount, William Douw Lighthall (1857-1954) and the Mayor of Toronto, Oliver Aiken Howland (1847-1905). The organization served as a lobbying body for municipal reform and held a number of annual conventions.

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Originals, 1901-1918, 60 cm (Unaccessioned)

The administrative records consist of a constitution, 1901, minutes, 1903, annual reports, 1902-1905, correspondence, 1901-1918, and a convention delegate registration book, 1901-1914. The financial records consist of an account book, 1902-1915 and auditors' reports, 1908-1914.

WHITNEY, REUBEN M., fl 1837

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Original, 1837, 1 cm (CH331.S291)

Letters about Whitney's secret service during the War of 1812 and libel suit, 1837 to F. Griffin.